THE POT OF EARTH By Archibald MacLeish. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company/The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1925. First edition, first printing. 1925 date printed to the title page. MacLeish, esteemed Librarian of Congress, novelist, playwright, and poet, earned numerous accolades for his poetry including a National Book Award, a Bollingen Prize, and two Pulitzer prizes--he won a third Pulitzer Prize for his play J.B. A narrative poem, in modernist style, that employs symbolism, nature, personification, seasons, philosophical thoughts, dangers, warnings, and more, sectioned in three parts. Rub-wear to the lower shelf-edges, soil spots and some age-toning to the covers, else very good and firm in black linen over gold-foil boards with black titles and illustration of the sun radiating on a grassy flower-adorned knoll to the front cover; in an about very good price-clipped dust jacket with a 1.5 inch long piece missing from the lower spine panel, chips and creases to the shelf-edges, darkening to the spine panel, and a half-inch snagged tear to the upper edge of the front panel. Octavo; 45 pages. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION POETRY BOOKS THANKS!